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[PATCH] Include gettext.h in MyFirstContribution tutorial

From
Jacob Stopak <jacob@initialcommit.io>
Date
Oct 17, 2023, 04:15 UTC
Message-ID
<20231017041503.3249-1-jacob@initialcommit.io>

The tutorial in Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt has steps to print some text using the "_" function. However, this leads to compiler errors when running "make" since "gettext.h" is not #included.

Update docs with a note to #include "gettext.h" in "builtin/psuh.c".
Signed-off-by: Jacob Stopak <jacob@initialcommit.io>
---
 Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt
index 62d11a5cd7..7cfed60c2e 100644
--- a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt
+++ b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt
@@ -160,10 +160,11 @@ in order to keep the declarations alphabetically sorted:
 int cmd_psuh(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
 ----
 
-Be sure to `#include "builtin.h"` in your `psuh.c`.
+Be sure to `#include "builtin.h"` in your `psuh.c`. You'll also need to
+`#include "gettext.h"` to use functions related to printing output text.
 
-Go ahead and add some throwaway printf to that function. This is a decent
-starting point as we can now add build rules and register the command.
+Go ahead and add some throwaway printf to the `cmd_psuh` function. This is a
+decent starting point as we can now add build rules and register the command.
 
 NOTE: Your throwaway text, as well as much of the text you will be adding over
 the course of this tutorial, is user-facing. That means it needs to be
-- 
2.42.0.398.ga9ecda2788.dirty
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